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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Nov. 29th, 2021 06:05 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days )
Since Friday's data covered two days and today's data covered three days, day-to-day comparisons are ... weirder ... than usual. In raw numbers, deaths were down compared to Friday (21 vs 24) while cases were up (5,497 vs 5,058). Averaging those numbers over the number of days covered, the opposite occurs; average deaths per day are up in today's report compared to Friday's (7 vs 12) while average cases per day were down (1,832 vs 2,529). On the other hand, both the numbers of deaths and cases are Too Damn High, in my not terribly humble opinion. Worse still, the hospitalization counts are way up; today's 839 patients are the highest reported since the February 26 report of 807. The seven-day averages of newly confirmed deaths and cases are down, which is nice; however, those for hospitalizations and percent-positive are up again, which is not nice at all.
Everybody's talking about the new Omicron coronavirus variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now recommending that all adults get vaccine booster shots:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, Governor Charlie Baker doesn't sound like he's planning on taking any new actions anytime soon, if this interview is any indication:
( Read more... )
Is he really touting the vaxfinder.mass.gov website as a success story? Considering how well the last big consultant-driven rollout went (the mass vaccination SNAFUs back in February), I'm not holding my breath that the "single QR code" thing will work worth a damn upon initial release.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 47 active and 1,345 cumulative cases as of November 28. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Since Friday's data covered two days and today's data covered three days, day-to-day comparisons are ... weirder ... than usual. In raw numbers, deaths were down compared to Friday (21 vs 24) while cases were up (5,497 vs 5,058). Averaging those numbers over the number of days covered, the opposite occurs; average deaths per day are up in today's report compared to Friday's (7 vs 12) while average cases per day were down (1,832 vs 2,529). On the other hand, both the numbers of deaths and cases are Too Damn High, in my not terribly humble opinion. Worse still, the hospitalization counts are way up; today's 839 patients are the highest reported since the February 26 report of 807. The seven-day averages of newly confirmed deaths and cases are down, which is nice; however, those for hospitalizations and percent-positive are up again, which is not nice at all.
Everybody's talking about the new Omicron coronavirus variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now recommending that all adults get vaccine booster shots:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, Governor Charlie Baker doesn't sound like he's planning on taking any new actions anytime soon, if this interview is any indication:
( Read more... )
Is he really touting the vaxfinder.mass.gov website as a success story? Considering how well the last big consultant-driven rollout went (the mass vaccination SNAFUs back in February), I'm not holding my breath that the "single QR code" thing will work worth a damn upon initial release.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 47 active and 1,345 cumulative cases as of November 28. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.